RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology")

Subject: RE: Open vs Appear, Yet Again (was: "RE: WG: Newbie question - GUI terminology")
From: Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com
To: "Jeff Cross" <Jeff -dot- Cross -at- desire2learn -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:21:19 -0700

In that sense, "displays" means the dialog is showing off, with intent to
mate.




Maggie
What do you mean it isn't magic?


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Jeff Cross <Jeff -dot- Cross -at- desire2learn -dot- com> points out:

> What about "displays" used as an intransitive verb, in place of
> "appears" or "opens"? (As in, "The Add Participant window displays.")
>
> Personally this drives me nuts, but I see it used quite frequently.

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